Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...separate political unit soon after the first gleam of gold appeared in the Klondike rapids of the Yukon River, Yukon is at present administered by a federal government Comptroller and a Territorial Council of three. Yukon's sole representative in the Dominion Parliament since October. 1935 has been Mrs. George Black, a dashing woman who left Chicago to join the gold rush of 1898. She exploded angrily last week when Premier Pattullo announced his acquisition, expressed "surprise" that no statement had been made "either in Parliament or by the Prime Minister...
...famed art auctioneers, recently issued an elaborate 171-page volume with 62 rotogravure plates entitled, "Catalog of the Magnificent Contents of 148 Piccadilly. W. I." No. 148 Piccadilly, W. I. was built in 1865 by Lionel Nathan de Rothschild, father of the first Baron Rothschild, who was elected to Parliament for the City of London in 1847 but remained unseated for eleven years until the restrictions against Jews were removed. He continued to represent the city until 1874 and finally resigned. Lionel Rothschild filled his house with one of the world's richest collections of Dutch and Flemish paintings...
...Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell", by Wilbur C. Abbott, professor of History. $5.00. A four orders, and letters, as well as more important documents, never brought together before, as well as the details of Cromwell's activities in Parliament, Published April...
Back in Britain, Potato Jones became at once a hero to Laborites and Leftist sympathizers. Not since the British Government's worried acceptance of the Italian conquest of Ethiopia has the Baldwin Government been so attacked in Parliament as it was last week over its refusal to guarantee safety to British ships attempting to run the Bilbao blockade...
...christening, Norway's Prince Haraldt six-weeks-old son of Crown Prince Olaf, received a huge, ornate beer mug as the official gift of the Norwegian Parliament. Sniffed Folket, temperance paper: "One would believe that it was a union of brewers and not the Norwegian Parliament that presented such a gift to the Prince. This vulgar object is a gift suitable for a drunkard...